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- 9711: Kate Chopin's The Awakening
- ... the beginning of the nineteenth century. The ideas expressed within the content concern the women's movement and an individual woman searching for who she really is. Ross C. Murfin in his critical essay "The New Historicism and the Awakening", shows how Chopin uses the entity of the hand to relate to both the entire women's issue and Edna Pontlierre's self exploration: "Chopin uses hands to raise the issues ... of the novel reveals to the audience a scene showing what type of person Mr. Pontlierre is while showing what type of society everyone is living in at the time. At an exclusive resort outside New Orleans, Edna arrives back from the beach meeting her husband. "You are burnt beyond all recognition" he added, looking at his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of personal property which has suffered ... and the literal reality in which women lived during the early nineteen hundreds. Tone, like style, helps the reader understand the characters and what they represent. It helps Chopin to express her concerns of the world through the characters. As in the example given in the beginning of the book when Edna is arriving back from the beach, the reader gets a first impression of Mr. Pontlierre in his tone, ...
- 9712: Norman Rockwell Bio
- ... childhood years had always aspired to be an artist. Instead of finishing high school Rockwell left high school to attend classes at the National Academy of Design and later on the Art Students League in New York. Here Rockwell was recognized as an above average illustrator with good potential. Rockwell then after developing his skills and contributing many illustrations to children s magazines, managed to muster up the courage to show ... his special skill in detail to capture and portray illustrations that accurately reflected the emotions felt in the hearts of Americans at the time. Rockwell made several illustrations exhibiting events like the Great Depression and World War I. In fact during the second World War Rockwell was motivated by President Roosevelt himself to create one of his greatest projects, The Four Freedoms Paintings, illustrating each of America s fundamental freedoms and revealing the reason behind the United States ...
- 9713: Extinct Animals Research: Woolly Mammoth
- ... be possible to include other animals from the Woolly Mammoth's time period, but that is another project. Bibliography Carlberg, Ulf. "The Mammoth." November 22, 1996. (3/1/97) Dixon, Douglas. The Illustrated Dinosaur Encyclopedia. New York: Gallery Books. 1988. pp.10,31 Kitson, Kenneth. "Zoobooks: Elephants" San Diego: Wildlife Education, Ltd., 1986. Norman, David. The Prehistoric World of the Dinosaur. New York: Gallery Books. 1988. pp. 6-7 Preistland, Neal. "The Types of Mammoths." (3/1/97) "Woolly Mammoth: Symbol of the Ice Age." The Late, Great, Mammals of Canada. December, 1994. (3/1/97)
- 9714: In Search Of Excellence...
- ... strategy, structure, style, systems, staff, skills, and shared values. This has 7 S's and a graphical representation to visualize. This shows the businessman that problems can be managed. For example, anyone assuming that a new manager of a Macdonald s will perform exactly as the old manager did is ridiculous. The workers must adjust and adapt to the new manager's way of business. The first principle is a bias for action. This is basically saying "Stop talking and do something about it." When Macdonald s has a rush of customers and their supplies ... big business, it might seem logical that business should be run more complex the larger it is. From research, this is usually not true. Ignoring the seven principles above would be foolish in the business world.
- 9715: Censorship on the Internet
- Censorship on the Internet Five years after the first world wide web was launched at the end of 1991, The Internet has become very popular in the United States. Although President Clinton already signed the 1996 Telecommunication ActI on Thursday Feb 8, 1996, the censorship ... but no one actually owns it. Thus, the Internet is a global network, and it crosses over different cultures. It is impossible to censor everything that seems to be offensive. For example, Vietnam has announced new regulations that forbid "data that can affect national security, social order, and safety or information that is not appropriate to the culture, morality, and traditional customs of the Vietnamese people." on June 4, 1996. It ... is very difficult to chase what has been published on the information superhighway. After President Clinton signed the 1996 Telecommunication Act, lots of net users reacted in outrage. Although the Federal court in Philadelphia and New York have overturned that Act, The government has appealed the ruling and the case has been referred to the U.S. Supreme Court. Since censorship is an international issue, people have different judgment and ...
- 9716: Impact Of Redifining Sexuality
- ... everything inside. Many women go through this fear after being married for several years. They become so dependant on the patriarchal society that they have doubts when it comes to letting go and forming a new life. p. 7 Another woman, B.E. chose to remain married to her husband event though she comes out as a lesbian . She did this so she could still maintain the benefits she had as a straight, married woman. B.E. says, I wore the mask and the costume that were required of me for entrance into the world of heterosexual privilege. Eventually B.E. could not handle the pressure of living a double life. She divorced her husband and began to live her life as a lesbian. B.E. said that it was ... society. Fear of heterosexual discrimination also was a deterrent in the coming out process. Women did p. 11 express that after coming out that they experienced a second childhood in terms of dating and meeting new friends. A surprising find was that even though women were worried about discrimination in the workplace, very few considered altering their career choices and professional goals. Most of the fear was of the reaction ...
- 9717: Song of Solomon: Milkman Dead - Respecting and Listening to Women
- ... name, and believing that he cannot act independently (120). The first lesson his father teaches him is that ownership is everything, and that women's knowledge (specifically, Pilate's knowledge) is not useful "in this world" (55). He is blind to the Pilate's wisdom. When Pilate tell Reba's lover that women's love is to be respected, he learns nothing (94). In the same episode, he begins his incestuous ... to her history of herself. Her beloved granddaughter has been sacrificed to him, and this is the only way he can make amends. Pilate does not only release him because she is overcome by this new understanding of her past, but because he has learned to be a man. He accepts the box of Hagar's hair, a reminder that "you can't fly off and leave a body" as he abandoned Hagar (334). With this act, he ritualistically accepts his inheritiance of responsibilty for others, specifically the women in his life. As Pilate dies, he sings for her, an act of kindness, signifying a new paradigm in his relationships with women. She tells him,"I wish I'd a knowed more people. I would of loved 'em all" (336), reinforcing the significance of kindness and responsibility. He realizes that ...
- 9718: Moby Dick: The Characters and Plot
- ... first mate of the Pequod. Queequeg, Tashtego, and Daggoo are the three harpooners. The story begins with Ishmael becoming restless. He decides to go out to sea on a whaling ship. In the port of New Bedford, he meets and shares a room with a harpooner named Queequeg. The two of them become close friends, and agree to ship out together. The day after they reach Nantucket, Ishmael begins searching for ... the Enderby. The Enderby's captain had just recently lost his arm to Moby Dick. Ahab becomes so excited at the news that he breaks his ivory leg. The ship's carpenter builds him a new one. Once reaching the waters around the equator, the Pequod meets another whaling ship, the Rachel. They had seen Moby Dick, and had become separated from one of the whaling boats during the battle. Ahab ... tragic flaw appeared. He was obsessed. He wanted revenge, and nothing else. Ahab considered Moby Dick to be the embodiment of all that is evil. This monomania is what sent the Pequod halfway around the world to the Pacific Ocean, where Ahab (and almost everyone else on the Pequod) died. Ahab becomes focused on his one view of the whale. Ahab's preceives the whale as the embodiment of evil. ...
- 9719: Augustines Confessions
- ... how much his actions pleased him. In book six of his confessions Augustine starts to think about the actions he had committed and how they were unlawful, not only in society but also in the world that God created. However as Augustine starts to show remorse for his sins it does not change the fact that he stole the fruit from the tree for the pleasure of sin. According to Aristotle ... his life is gone forever, not to be replaced. Augustine had to live with hi immoral choice the rest of his days. Work Cited Augustine, St. The Confessions of St. Augustine. Trans. John K. Ryan. New York: Doubleday, 1960. Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics. Trans. Martin Oswald. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1962.
- 9720: Plants
- ... which whole economies and nations depend. Of even greater importance to humans are the indirect benefits reaped from the entire plant kingdom and its' more than 3 billion years of carrying out photosynthesis. Today the world's biomass is composed overwhelmingly of plants, which not only underpin all food webs but also modify climates and create and hold down soil, making what would otherwise be stony, sandy masses habitable for life ... Systems There are many variants of the generalized plant cell and its parts. Similar kinds of cells are organized into structural and functional units, or tissues, which make up the plant as a whole, and new cells (and tissues) are formed at growing points of actively dividing cells. These growing points, called meristems, are located either at the stem and root tips, where they are responsible for the primary growth of ... along the stem. The portions of the stem between nodes are called internodes. Stems increase in length through the activity of an apical meristem at the stem tip. This growing point also gives rise to new leaves, which surround and protect the stem tip, or apical bud, before they expand. Modified leaves called bud scales usually protect apical buds of deciduous trees, which lose their leaves during part of the ...
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